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China’s GAC Debuts Ammonia-Powered Car Engine

The Truth About Cars

With the automotive industry now keen on propulsion systems that don’t emit a lot of carbon, we’ve seen decades of manufacturers toying with alternative fuels. But companies are trying to swap to “green” variants that utilize renewable energy — though these only represent a fraction of the whole at present. and Tesla Inc.,

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Shill for a Withering Lie

Plugs and Cars

From the film to the agreements reached between Toyota and Ford with Plug In America to keep electric cars on the road to automakers own statements of late about plug-in hybrids and the "electrification of the automobile," the notion that the electric car failed due to its own shortcomings is slowly coming undone.

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Update: Top 10 Electric Cars

Clean Fleet Report

General Motors has done something remarkable, enough so that we were tempted to jump them up to the top of this chart until they stumbled recently. Road Test: 2021 RAV4 Prime PHEV ; Flash Drive: 2021 Toyota Mirai Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle. Our focus is on vehicles that offer the best fuel economy in their class.

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China puts its electric vehicles on center stage - China automotive news

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

As a subscriber, you can receive our free weekly China Auto News, which keeps you informed the latest developments of Chinas automobile industry. Alternative-fuel cars were some of the hottest items on display at the Shanghai auto show from homegrown companies like Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd., and Chery Automobile Co.

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As Electric Car Makers Ante Up Billions, Software Is Ace in the Hole

Cars That Think

Since then Daimler , Ford Motor Company , General Motors , Stellantis and Volkswagen Group, have committed an additional $152 billion in investments, a sum four times their combined 2019 operating profits. An additional $60 billion plus in investments have also been made in more than 70 EV start-ups wanting in on the game.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform.

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